regex replace treats \n as 2 chars

[jquelin]

reported by barbie

• Regex Replace treats "\n" as two separate characters not the newline character (or combination as appropriate).

[zenogantner]

Hi barbie,

do you mean in the "Find" or in the "Replace" field?

In the "Find" field, it is recognized as a newline (when regular expressions are activated).
In the "Replace" field, a literal string is expected.

So I do not think this is a defect, rather a missing feature.

What would be nice:

1. support inserting characters like "\n"
2. support inserting matched sub-pattern like "$1".

Or did you mean something else?